In 2019 a new tea room and tea shop in Brooklyn, New York, created a local buzz for its imported teas. Having been opened in the predominantly Black Bedford-Stuyvesant area in December 2108 by Jamila McGill and Alfonso Wright, Brooklyn Tea seemed destined for success. Brooklyn Tea serves more than 60 tea varieties, delicious pastries. They also offer…
The former ‘Empire’ actor faces a maximum of three years in prison for staging a fake hate crime in 2019. A date has been set for Jussie Smollett’s sentencing. On March 10, the actor/singer will find out his punishment after being convicted of staging a fake hate crime on himself, per CNN. Smollett, best known…
“I felt like I had to have the long hair and look like my character,” LisaRaye said. Actress LisaRaye McCoy said that she suffered from an “identity crisis” after playing the stripper Diamond in the 1998 film The Players Club. “I had an identity crisis after ‘Players Club’ because I felt like I had to…
The first all-female, all-Black Caribbean team to row across the Atlantic hopes to make history again in a new rowing challenge Team Antigua Island Girls rowed their way into the history books when they became the first all-female Caribbean team to complete the grueling Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, and the first all-Black team to row across the…
Owens’ family told reporters that he died in his sleep on Saturday following a period of declining health. Massachusetts’ first Black state senator Bill Owens died over the weekend at the age of 84, according to NBC Boston. He was 84. The political pioneer’s family told the station that he died in his sleep on…
Ivory Aquino recently appeared in ‘Tales of the City’ and ‘When We Rise’ Batgirl, the highly anticipated superhero film based on the character of the same name, just made a major casting announcement. The film will feature the first openly trans character to ever appear in a DC Comics film, with Ivory Aquino joining as…
A viral social media challenge today has users showing off their bands of money or lack thereof. And, for the past week, artists and entertainers including Yung Miami of City Girls, Lil Durk, Tami Roman, 50 Cent, Soulja Boy, and more have shared photos of themselves lying next to words spelled out in cash. Their…
Tioni Theus was last seen on Jan. 7, before leaving her father’s Compton home. Los Angeles County is considering contributing to a reward for information leading to the suspects involved in the killing of 16-year-old Tioni Theus, who was found dead on the side of 110 freeway earlier this month. The teen was last seen…
Denzel Washington recently admitted it was “too weird” watching his son, actor John David Washington, star in the sci-fi action thriller “Tenet.” While out doing press for his latest project, “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” the Oscar-winning star opened up about his experience watching the Christopher Nolan-directed film at his private movie theater, which he noted…
The film was written and directed by Vigil Chime and stars Ijeoma Grace Agu, Kenneth Okolie and more Freestyle Digital Media has acquired The Touched One, a supernatural-horror drama set to debut on Video on Demand platforms this February. Freestyle Digital Media is a digital film distribution division of Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios, which also owns theGrio….
